By CAROLYN CARY
Contributing Writer

Due to an unusual set of circumstances, elections for Brooks municipal posts this year will be delayed until early next year.

Town Council Posts 4, 5 and 6 were up for reelection this fall, but Jimmy Lindsey, Post 4, announced early on that he would not be seeking reelection.

Dan Langford Jr. in Post 5 and Mike Hanson, Post 6, both qualified to run for reelection, and were unopposed, so no election will be necessary for their posts.

C. W. Howell was the only candidate who qualifed for Post 4, so it appeared no election would be needed at all, but after qualifying closed it was discovered that Howell was a couple of weeks shy of living the required one year in Brooks.

It is too late to go through the qualifying process again for the Nov. 2 election, so a special election will be necessary.

Town attorney David Winkle told the council at its Oct. 18 meeting that the U.S. Justice Department must be advised that a special election will be conducted and there would be a period of 60 days before approval would be given. He said that concurrently with this period, the town could proceed with running the required legal advertising and that the election could be conducted in early spring.